Habitus Ordinis Mutatio is where I turn experiments, technical repairs, and unfinished ideas into something another person can use.
The name roughly points to a habit of changing order. That is the thread connecting the site: understand a system, question its defaults, and rebuild it with more agency.
What you will find here
Practical infrastructure
These are the most-used guides on the site:
- Fix a Proxmox VM stuck in an error or locked state
- Keep Proxmox running when a laptop lid closes
- Resize a Debian VM disk in Proxmox and add swap
- Publish an Umbrel app with Cloudflare Tunnel
- Set up I2P email in Thunderbird safely
I write these as runbooks: diagnose first, make the smallest change, and verify the result.
Bitcoin and digital sovereignty
Bitcoin interests me as a tool for direct ownership and a constraint on monetary discretion. Nostr, self-hosting, and user-controlled computing extend the same question into identity and software.
Start with Why Bitcoin changed how I think about money and AI, open source, and Bitcoin in an epoch of change.
Philosophy, culture, and science
Some posts are arguments or thought experiments rather than instructions. I try to preserve curiosity while making the evidence boundary clear.
- Jean Baudrillard on simulacra and hyperreality
- Metamodernism as a practical blueprint for sincere creation
- Stochastic electrodynamics vs. quantum electrodynamics
- Sixteen ways to verify that Earth is a globe
My standard for useful writing
A post should tell you:
- what problem it solves;
- what assumptions it makes;
- what can go wrong;
- how to verify the result;
- where the claim becomes speculation;
- what to do next.
Older posts are revised when software, evidence, or my own understanding changes. The original publication date remains part of the article history; an updated date tells you when I last made a material pass.
You can find more about me at adammalin.com or follow my work on Nostr.